tWitch’s Family Speaks Out: Brother Claims Late Dancer ‘Felt Silenced’ In Allison Holker Marriage

Stephen “tWitch” Boss’ family is speaking out.

During an interview with CBS Mornings on Tuesday, the late Ellen DeGeneres Show DJ’s mother Connie Boss Alexander and brother Drè Rose challenged many of the claims Allison Holker made about her late husband in memoir This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light. Particularly relating to the “cornucopia of drugs” she allegedly found in tWitch’s belongings after his death, and his journal entry alluding to sexual abuse by a male figure as a child. Dre told interviewer Gayle King after being asked if he had any clue about the latter:

“No, that was new. It was a shock to me, it was a shock to our father, because when that comes up, it’s like, hold on, a male figure? So now you have our family looking at each other like, ‘Whoa, what happened?’ And we didn’t know anything of that nature.”

Connie also noted she had no idea of any such abuse. As for the drugs, Dre told Gayle:

“I knew that recreationally, he’s used or tried things. That wasn’t a shock to me. This cornucopia of drugs that had to be Googled — we don’t even know what those were. We don’t know anything to be true … It’s hearsay, it’s someone else’s version. And if that is the truth, there could have been a better way to bring that to the family and then we discuss what that meant.”

However, faced with the possibility that as his wife, Allison may have known more about tWitch’s demons than his family, Dre conceded:

“It’s a possibility, I mean, they were married … I think there are things that she knows that we didn’t know, but also know that there are things about him that she didn’t know.”

For example, Dre claimed Stephen would often confide in him about insecurities like “imposter syndrome” and that the two would often work together to find solutions. He also claimed tWitch felt those conversations were “difficult with Allison.” He added:

“In my opinion, our conversation that he had with me, he felt silenced [in his own home]. Like he couldn’t get it out. Often. He loved his wife and he loved those kids, and he would definitely give them his last. But in any situation in which you can’t have a conversation and get resolved, it becomes one-sided. And … I can say that there were many conversations [where] there was no resolve. But he would always say to me, ‘This is life. The lights are on, figure it out.’”

You can watch Dre and Connie’s full interview (below):